DHAKA: Iran resumed talks on its nuclear program with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Saturday.The official IRNA news agency said, in discussions expected to broach sensitive military-related issues, reports The Jerusalem Post.The UN atomic agency hopes to persuade Iran

DHAKA: Heavy snow and severe weather struck Tokyo and other areas across Japan on Saturday, leaving two dead and around 90 injured, reports said.More than 600 flights were grounded as the weather agency issued a severe storm warning for the capital.As much as 12cm of snow was recorded on

DHAKA: The number of civilians killed and wounded in Afghanistan’s war rose 14 percent last year, the United Nations said on Saturday, with deaths almost reaching the record of 2011.Civilians killed or wounded in the crossfire of fighting between government and Taliban-led insurgent

DHAKA: The Russian firearms company Kalashnikov will start setting up a joint assembly facility in India in 2014.Kalashnikov CEO Alexei Krivoruchko told journalists on Friday, The Voice of Russia publishes this report on Saturday.‘I think we will start building a production facility in

DHAKA: Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade has sought dismissal of the visa fraud case against her on the ground that the indictment was filed in a court here a day after the US accorded her full diplomatic immunity and the country did not have criminal jurisdiction over her.Khobragade’s

DHAKA: Protesters set fire to a section of the presidency building in the Bosnian capital city of Sarajevo, on the third day of unrest over unemployment and political intertia. News agency reported that protesters had smashed windows and threw a flare into the building police efforts to

DHAKA: Heavy rains and flooding have killed at least 38 people in Bolivia according to the Bolivian Defence Ministry, as authorities declared a state of emergency in response to the crisis.The floods have washed away people`s homes and are causing illnesses, survivors said on Friday.In

DHAKA: At least 17 people have been killed in Argentina when a bus crashed into a lorry driving on the wrong side of the motorway. The crash happened as the bus approached the western city of Mendoza, reports BBC. Local reports say the truck, which had a Brazilian licence plate, was

DHAKA: Bosnia is bracing for another day of anti-government demonstrations over unemployment and political inertia, following Thursday`s violent riots which left more than 130 people injured.Authorities in the town of Tuzla, the hotspot of violence that began on Tuesday, ordered schools

DHAKA: Mexican police have found a mass grave containing at least 20 bodies in the small municipality of Tinguindin, in troubled western Michoacan state.In nearby Zacan, the severed heads of four men were discovered by residents early on Thursday.Vigilante groups began an offensive in the

DHAKA: A pause in fighting to evacuate hundreds of civilians from besieged areas of the city of Homs in Syria is expected to begin on Friday.The ceasefire should also allow long-awaited aid into the worst hit areas, reports BBC.The UN welcomed reports that a "humanitarian pause" had been

DHAKA: The Syrian government and rebels fighting to oust president Bashar Assad appear to have reached an agreement on allowing humanitarian aid to reach the besieged city of Homs.The Russian foreign ministry said on Thursday, reports The Jerusalem Post.‘The issue of humanitarian access

DHAKA: Iran is prepared to modify its planned Arak heavy water reactor to help allay Western concerns, its nuclear energy chief said in published remarks that could be the first such suggestion by a senior Iranian official.Western powers, preparing for negotiations with Iran on a

DHAKA: North Korea has threatened to cancel family reunions with the South, a day after agreeing to hold them.Its top military body said in a statement that it would reconsider the deal if joint US-South Korea military exercises went ahead.‘Dialogue and exercises of war’ could not go

DHAKA: Millions of Londoners faced another morning of travel chaos on Thursday as a 48-hour strike by London Underground workers angry at ticket office closures and job cuts entered its second day.Staff from the two main rail unions began the first of two planned 48-hour tube strikes late

DHAKA: The first formal meeting between Pakistan government and a Taliban-nominated team has begun in an undisclosed location, local media say.They are due to start charting a ‘roadmap’ for peace talks, reports the BBC.The talks were delayed earlier in the week after the government

DHAKA: The Italian navy has rescued more than 1,100 migrants from nine large rafts in the waters south of Sicily, the latest arrivals from North Africa.Patrol helicopters identified the overcrowded rafts on Wednesday and four navy vessels participated in the rescue which ended early on

  DHAKA: Egypt’s army chief Field Marshal Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has said he will run for president. A Kuwaiti newspaper says, reports the BBC. Asked by the al-Seyassah newspaper if he would be standing, the army chief said he had to meet the wishes of the Egyptian people and run for

  DHAKA: India’s government has decided to extend the country’s limited visa-on-arrival scheme to tourists from 180 countries in an attempt to boost tourism and business. The only exceptions to the scheme will be nationals from eight countries, including Pakistan and Afghanistan.

  DHAKA: Rescue workers at a South African gold mine say they have recovered eight bodies after a fire and rock fall. One other miner remains missing at the Doornkop mine west of Johannesburg, the government said. Earlier, eight other miners were found in an underground refuge chamber